Nothing new in what you have written,
Bodum.
ALL of that -and more - used to be "standard issue" for domestic pax until the early '90's.
Simply re-inventing the wheel.
But no doubt it took some highly paid, "innovative" managers, to come up with the re-hashed hash menus!
I guess the next "Firsts" will be linen tablecloths and napkins, and champagne before
hors d'euvres, followed by cheese and port after mains.
Worldwide passengers have had a HUGE reduction in the benefits they used to receive - benefits that cost only a couple of dollars per pax - but at no reduction in their ticket prices.
Service and
SAFETY has declined CONSIDERABLY because of the severe reductions in cabin crew (whilst all the while maintaining, or even INCREASING, the number of ground-bound desk jockeys..."empire building" is a fairly apt term!).
The number of
NON-REVENUE PRODUCING staff at most airlines is now out of control - and these have been supported by the slf's at their OWN expense.
Now that competition has been whittled down (especially since 911), and airlines are fighting for a bigger share of the market (to survive), they are starting to give back to pax some of the services they had enjoyed for a long time.
With
REVENUE PRODUCING staff trimmed to the bone, and the previous "niceities" returned, it's time to SERIOUSLY look at the vastly inflated
NRP's parasiting off the airline!